Forums
Forums are discussion boards that allow a user to post information about a topic. Following a post, users can reply to the post, and hence create a threaded discussion. Forums are generally used for discussions. In a MODx site, one simple method to implement a forum is by using the SMF module. SMF is an open source community forum software application that can be installed independently of MODx. The SMF module for MODx allows the integration of MODx with SMF. This allows a user to log in to the MODx site and use the SMF forum as well, which means that your site can be powered by MODx, and can take advantage of the forum-specific functionalities of third-party software. We will see how the SMF modules make this possible. The following are the steps to get SMF working with MODx.
1. Install SMF
2. Install the SMF module for MODx
Installing SMF
As mentioned earlier, SMF is forum-specific software that we are going to use with MODx. So we will have to download and install SMF independently...